Beside Still Waters Ministries

This week went better than last, in part due to Curt’s suggestion that we take a breath and give the congregation a break from new music.  So, it was all hymns done fairly traditionally today.  The real blessing for me was the suggestion by my friend Wendy that I take my keyboard so that I [...]

[Read more →]

I’ve been having a lot of allergy issues, along with working so much during the week, that I was feeling pretty off today and it really showed. My voice was giving out by the middle of the service, and I just didn’t have much energy. I was disappointed especially with how “Before The [...]

[Read more →]

I really think that this was my strongest Sunday so far, and I hope that the congregation was able to celebrate Jesus’ resurrection.  Being mostly older people, they aren’t very demonstrative and so it is hard to tell.  I was able to modulate up a half step or two on the last verses of some [...]

[Read more →]

We kept this service pretty simple, and we didn’t have footwashing (which I personally missed).  Something that was different for me is that they “stripped the sanctuary”, which meant that they took out the Bible, candlesticks, communion elements, whatever else that was on the altar, and the vestments hanging from the front pulpits.  I’ve never [...]

[Read more →]

Hopefully now I’ll be back on track with my blogging schedule, though with working during the week at a CPA firm during tax season I may not keep up.  It is getting to crunch time…big time. 
I took my new Yamaha YPG-225 today, to try it out because I already planned to bring it next week [...]

[Read more →]